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In his press conference this morning, Charlie Strong dodged rumors that he was interviewing for other coaching jobs, namely in the SEC. But, he also criticized Cards fans on their poor attendance this season, especially for Louisville’s senior day against UConn: “We’re 9-0 and we don’t even pack the stadium? What more do we need to do?”

In fact, he went as far to challenge them to have the same passion as the “Big Blue Nation” does for their teams:

“Kentucky can travel with the Big Blue Nation, they go take over. We should have that same passion here.”

Charlie obviously did not see the picture of the crowd at the Vandy game.

That being said, UK football fans have been for the most part a loyal and long-suffering bunch. Charlie is probably basing part of what he said on seeing UK crowds in the past when he was part of the Gators staff.

How many Card fans are making the trip to NOLA to give Charlie a fond farewell?

When your coach beats up on the fans that says a lot about the program.
Although, it would be difficult to watch Big East football.
In the SEC, even in KY’s case this year, there was at least one good team on the field.

Pretty sure it has more to do with the level of competition being played. They can pack the stand when they want. 9-0 in The Big Least against 2nd tier competition says it all. I believe that UL going to the ACC probably keeps Strong in Louisville.

4) teddy is your saving grace. He is Charlie’s cam newton. When he is gone Charlie will not look so good or sorta good. Unconn and Syracuse are not Florida. You will be smacked down to reality come jan. Florida had no problem with Johnny Football, and teddy is no Johnny Football.

#5 What do you think Stoops will do if he can get UK to better than a .500 record? UK is also a stepping stone. LOL, we’ve just never given a coach the opportunity to take that step! And #6, let’s be real. UofL in a BCS Bowl? They will travel pretty well. I was shocked how many UofL fans went to the Orange Bowl when they played in it.

#13. I am not a Cards fan. I’m a UK fan. I don’t disagree with you that Teddy makes Charlie look good. That just reinforces my point. It is reality … UofL won’t lose much talent this year. If Teddy comes back, they will beat UK again. I don’t know what your point is…. of course FL is no Syracuse. Of course FL should beat UofL. What does that have to do with my post about UK playing UofL next year?

A press conf will be held by Charlie this week to announce that he has either taken another job, or that he will take the next job offered him.
Conference to be held at Two Men and A Truck parking lot.
Charlie is on the move.

18) if you read the post, my point was that teddy is not invincible. If Uconn can beat them, we can. Plus we return pretty much everyone as well. This time we will have actual coaches that know what is going on.

Well the Cards have managed to unravel another conference.
GA Tech and FSU to Big 12.
UNC and Duke to SEC.
UL and rest of old Big East back where they started…of course they can always add Temple, Davidson, College of Charleston and Valdosta State.
According to Rick, I am sure those would be square trades for GA Tech, FSU, UNC and Duke.

And Louisville Fans wonder why we make fun of them about being in a weak conference. BECAUSE YOU’RE 10-1 WITH WINS AGAINST ABSOLUTELY NO ONE! And even if you win every game you’ll never be considered for a title game. All that to say, Strong should and will leave soon. If he stays much longer, he’ll start losing to UK, and his season will be over after game 1.

#18 Those are some pretty big ifs. Let’s say that UK gets upgrades. First off, I’m not sure they are even adding more seats at CWS. What I read is updated recruiting room, pressbox, etc. So if CWS stays at 70,000 capacity, that still keeps it middle of pack or lower in SEC. I hope Stoops wins in SEC, but if he does, it will come at the expense of Vandy/Ole Miss/MSU/Mizzou. It will be dam hard to do better than .500. I don’t care if Stoops is the next Lombardi, will he surpass Saban/Spurrier/Miles/Muschamp? Even if he could, will UK’s facilities, $$ from boosters, recruiting base surpass other SEC school? I think Stoops is a major upgrade, but that’s like saying a 1988 rusty Ford Fairlane is an upgrade over a 1978 Pinto. Still plenty of places to go up in the SEC and outside of it. You just can’t imagine UK as a steppingstone because no UK coach has ever been successful enough to use us as such.

I’d say UofL is a good job from an AD, fundraising, and facilities standpoint, but it’s obvious they don’t have as large of a fanbase. Charlie is using this as his excuse to either fire their fan base up for the bowl game where he knows Florida is going to flood with people, or make and excuse to leave the job for a bigger post.

Why not have 5 ocnferences when realignment is complete.
The four power houses that everyone expects…plus a fifth for ever school that is not part of the big 4.
Teams like UL would fit in #5 and they can rotate and play all teams in their conference once every 75 or so years.

Charlie doesn’t even know his team’s record! Charles, your team was 9-1 going into the UConn game, not 9-0. The Cards were dominated by the ‘Cuse, and they’re gonna be EXPOSED for the FRAUDS they are in the Sugar Bowl by the Gators!

#28….THANK YOU. That’s the exact point. Guy Morris wasn’t using us as a stepping stone, hell he wasn’t Mitch’s guy. I personally think if a guy is hired in by the AD(ala Stoops) then moves on to something bigger and better…would have to be either existing top tier SEC FL, AL, UGA, LSU or Notre Dame/USC then you can say UK was his stepping stone. But I just don’t see this guy that way.

Maybe he proves me wrong and bolts for the bigger jobs when they come calling, and by hell i hope they do. Means he’s been super successful and beating some top tier SEC schools consistantly. I think he’s got to win consistently before ANYONE will be calling wanting him to come to their school.

And how many of the TOP SEC schools do you think will swallow their pride and request to speak with a UK football coach???? Seriously think about that, we are the BASKETBALL school, if we’re winning in football…there will be a cosmic shift in the SEC. I just don’t see ANYONE asking another SEC head coach to take their team over.

28…Any realistic UK fan doesn’t and shouldn’t expect Kentucky to surpass the likes of Alabama, LSU, or Florida. I don’t think anybody really and truly thinks that will ever be the case, at least on a consistent basis. Is it possible for Stoops to come in, build the program to the point where we could perennially compete with those schools? Absolutely. Is it too far-fetched to think we could catch lightning in a bottle once or twice and win the SEC East? I don’t think so.

That being said, do I expect Kentucky to be a program on par with perennial top 10 powers? No, and I don’ think any straight-thinking Kentucky fan should expect that. However, what I do expect, and what I think is totally logical, is for Kentucky to be a WINNING program. A program that makes second and third tier bowl games year in and year out. A program that consistently finishes in the middle of the pack of the SEC, on par with the likes of South Carolina, Ole Miss, Arkansas (most years), Mississippi State and now Missouri. A program that, every once in a while, makes a run at a divisional title and a major bowl, whether it’s a BCS, or Capitol One type bowl. The tools are here to do that, and it is definitely not too far-fetched to think a guy with the passion and direction of Mark Stoops couldn’t get us to that point.

And if ends up leaving for a better job, I’ll be ok with it. Because that will mean he has built us up and then finding the next Johnny-Come-Lately will be that much easier, and we won’t have to always have a coach come in to build us back up.

Imagine that, not enough Louisville fans to fill the Pizza Box, even with a 9-0 team on Senior Day…say goodbye to Charlie and goodbye to you’re winning football teams. Truthfully, there are barely enough real UofL ‘fans’ to fill the Chicken Bucket for basketball games.

Be realistic here, how many jobs are out there that are bigger than an SEC job?
Once the super conferences are set in next year or two, coaches are not going to be jumping to jobs that are not in super conferences.
Sure, Mich., Ohio St, N Dame, USC and a few others are big jobs but how many places can a coach go and still be in high profile league?
Then the next big question is, how often do those big time jobs (top tier SEC and ones mentioned above) come open?
UK has the ability to pay as much or more as nearly any other school, therefore if successful why would a coach move to Arkansas, Miss ST, Mizou, A&M, etc?
It would take an opening at a Georgia, Fla, LSU, Alabama, Ohio St, N Dame, Mich, USC type school to be an upgarde at that point.

The landscape of college football is no longer the same.
Jobs in the big 4 conferences are going to be even more coveted than in the past.

He is 100% correct about UL fans. If they didnt sell beer it would be half full. The competition stinks. They will have more fans at the games when the join the ACC. Florida State and Clemson fans travel well. Strong is going to Rocky Top! Write it down!!!

Sorry man, but you have to be realisticDecember 3, 2012 at 1:50 pm | Permalink

“UK has the ability to pay as much or more as nearly any other school, therefore if successful why would a coach move to Arkansas, Miss ST, Mizou, A&M, etc?”

You do realize Texas A&M is sitting in one of the largest recruiting hot beds in the country right? So much to the point that they could probably recruit solely within 2 hours of campus and have a better class than the rest of the SEC–especially Kentucky. Not all, but a significant portion of the UK football crowd needs to brush up on basic college football knowledge. Anyone not from UK would sprint from Lexington if offered the job at A&M. Thats not even including the oil $$$ booster factor.

What the hell is in that water in lessington these days? really people? Your obsession truely knows no bounds. Let UL take care of UL. You take of little sister. UL attendance is less than what we want, true but the UK attendance was nothing to shout about. Worry about getting up to Ole Miss standards before you think about competing in the SEC. Right now you play in the SEC, but you do not compete.

Strong is an overrated coach, that has coached an irrelevant team in a dead conference; not to hard to look good. Hell even Charlie said he wouldn’t want to play in the SEC.

UL fans being as passionate s the Big Blue Nation. First you must have fans & be relevant outside the cit limits of Louisville. Second: Strong should go look under the stadium at the fans that just go to games to be seen, and are smoking & drinking. Third: It’s kind of hard to have fans with passion when your fans are nothing but bandwagon fans.

43 that’s hilarious. We’re obsessed with UL yet you are on a UK site. Classic irony. I’ve never in my life been on Card Chronicles but I’d bet my paycheck you all talk about UK on there as much as KSR makes fun of UofL. Thanks for the laugh, loser.

42, If A&M can recruit within 2 hours of campus and have a better class than rest of SEC then why aren’t they doing it each year?
I believe that history proves that best classes have consistently come from top tier SEC teams, before A&M joined the league.
Not saying that UK has better recruiting base than A&M but my point was than if successful at UK one would assume that Stoops will have established his own recruiting pipeline whether in FLA, Ohio or otherwise. Having said that, at that point I do not believe that most of the SEC jobs would be any better than the UK job, excluding the top tier jobs. You may consider A&M a top tier SEC job but I do not sir.

As for brushing up on basic football knowledge, I am not a guru, however I believe you could possibly do a little brushing up on your own if you believe that A&M can out recruit the rest of the SEC.

49 The difference between the sites couldn’t be bigger. There’s crap on here about Louisville MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY. There might be something about UK on there once a week. And it’ll be something relevant, like UK taking the biggest drop in basketball polls in history.

I have an idea, why don’t UL fans stick to UL sites and UK fans stick to UK sites.
That way neither will know what the other is saying.

I do not go to UL sites but UL fans are on this site on nearly every post talking trash.
If you do not like what is said on this UK site then do not come on here.
To come to a rival site and cry and whine because they are bashing UL is down right stupid.

When watching UK games please look away when championship banners are shown on your tv screen.
You have not been exposed to that magnitude of winning, therefore exposure to eight championship banners will cause you to have a sudden and severe case of the sh**s!!

Other side effects may include dry mouth, increased blood pressure, severe rash and a sudden urge to urinate.
Upon prolonged exposure to eight championship banners, there have been reported instances of some UL and IU fans fantasizing to the point of an erec**on.
Should your erect**n last for more than four hours, please consult Rick Petino or Tom Crean and they will arrange a bimbo for you.

52 don’t you have better things to do than be on Card Chronicles? No wonder y’all lost so much this year. But congrats on the FL job. Also, Louisville fans in this site: when I said I wanted you to be like BBN, I didn’t mean come trolling on their websites. Once again you idiots can’t follow simple requests. I meant support your own team. Forget this, I’m gonna get back to working on my resume. L yeah, I’m done.

Strong is not going to AU or Arkansas because both programs can’t hire him. UT isn’t smart enough to hire him. ACC will continue to provide him access to the BCS. The only reason he will leave is if he is concerned about competeting for recruits against FSU and Miami.

It is going to be so funny when the losing kitty cats see Charlie on the sidelines of louisville next year. Keep listening to rumors while your team sucks! This rumor is just that like Cooley to sUcK LMAO! Win a game and stop worrying about us

59, I agree that post # 55 is hilarous…one of my better posts.
I propose that it be cut and pasted on each new thread.
That way UL and IU trolls will have been put on notice about the danger of viewing UK’s championship banners, while at the same time they will be severely embarassed.

I totally agree with #1 and 5. At the last UL home game the cameras were being sure not to show the empty seats in the upper deck. Other than the UK games how many times have they filled “The John”? They also had a poor showing for their Orange Bowl appearance. That was the lowest rated Orange Bowl in history and probably one of the most boring. Even with the poor attendance this year at Commonwealth I don’t think UK fans should be criticized. Look at the number of fans they took to Tampa for the OutBack Bowl and to the Music City Bowls.Give us a winning team and watch what happens to Commonwealth Stadium.The poor attendance this year was just sending a message to get a new coach. Boy it sure worked!!! Also will Strong want to stay in the ACC after Fla.St., Clemson, Ga.Tech, Va.Tech and No.Carolina jump ship?

#71: Everyone knows Louisville isn’t a college football town, never was and never will be. Most of UL’s fans are fair weather fans. All they care about regarding home football games is tailgating which they think they invented and drinking during the games. They could have played their home games at Manual Stadium if they had UK’s record this year. Also I believe there were more UK fans at their opening game than all of the Big Least opponents combined.

95 stadium size doesn’t matter. If you can’t fill up 34, you can’t fill up 68. You think if you’re pizza box held 68 you would have had more people there? Clearly tix were available so that makes -0- sense.

96 – You have a football ring to kiss?
97 – A) Attendance for UL in 2009 was the same as UK in 2012. But UL is fairweather and UK isn’t? Really? B) Stadium size does matter. More seats means more cheap seats means more attendance. Before the stadium expansion there weren’t any cheap seats at all.
98 – UK literally lied about their attendance this year.

103 your team turned to Groupon to sell tickets, please shut up. Or keep going so we can keep laughing at you. But you are right, you may have sold a few more seats if cheaper tickets were available…too bad you can’t trade food stamps for them. And there is no proof that Louisville wasn’t lying about their attendance records. No one cared enough to check.